# Forty Pages of Code

> Forty Pages of Code is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, card 0167 of 1,280 in the 80s Memes & Fads set, made in six finishes. Spending an entire weekend typing a game program printed in a magazine, line by line, into a home computer.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/forty-pages-of-code/

- Card number: 0167 of 1,280
- Set: 80s Memes & Fads (80-MEM)
- Year: 1984
- Type: Home computer type-in program
- Tagline: One typo and the spaceship becomes a rock.
- Found at: Back pages of a hobby magazine
- Cost back then: One whole weekend
- Stats: Nostalgia 8/10, Hype 5/10, Weirdness 7/10, Trade value 4/10
- Finishes: Base (100 copies), Holo (50 copies), Laser (25 copies), Gold (10 copies), Super Laser (1 copy), Misprint (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/0167-base.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0167-holo.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0167-laser.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0167-gold.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0167-super.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0167-misprint.webp

## The story

The magazine promised a thrilling space game if you typed in forty pages of numbers and commands. Dad read the lines aloud while you typed. Sunday night you hit run, and a single square blinked once and froze. Somewhere around line nine hundred, a zero had become the letter O.

## Fun fact

Most families saved their typed program to a cassette tape, which made a screechy sound like a robot gargling.

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